摘要:
An information storage apparatus includes a disc-shaped recording medium in which control marks aligned in a predetermined rule are recorded, a head contacting or approaching a recording medium surface to reproduce/record information of the recording medium and detecting the control marks, a head driving section holding the head to move the head in a direction of coming near or away to/from a recording medium rotation center, a driving force control section controlling a driving force for head driving section, a driving time control section controlling a driving time for the head driving section using an interval of the detection of the plural control marks as a time unit, and a driving force correcting section obtaining a difference between an ideal interval based on the rule of the control marks and an actual interval of the control marks to correct the control of the driving force based on the difference.
摘要:
Upon recording, a clearance control unit performs preheating by an added control value (BR) of a base heater control value B and an adjustment heater control value R and switches that to value B when it reaches a target sector to perform write. Upon reproduction, preheating is performed by the value (BR) and the value (BR) is maintained when it reaches a target sector to perform read. A correction processing unit detects contact between the head and a medium surface while increasing the value R from a predetermined initial value Ro, and sets a new calculated base heater control value B, and value Ro as the adjustment heater control value R. Write assist adjustment in which the measured adjustment heater control value R is adjusted to a heater control value that improves characteristic deterioration immediately after recording is started wherein preheating is switched to write heating is performed.
摘要:
A recording apparatus capable of securely reading out data for causing a head to follow along circular tracks set virtually. Therefore, on-track control along the virtual tracks is possible by the conversion data on the discoid record medium even when, for example, the printed circuit board in a recording apparatus has been replaced.
摘要:
There is provided a head control method controlling move of a head on a discoidal recording medium including the steps of: partitioning the discoidal recording medium which has position information recorded thereon at radially equal spacing into a plurality of zones; and demodulating the position information using a coefficient set for each of the zones.
摘要:
A storage device includes a predetermined number of disks on which servo information is recorded, and a predetermined number of heads. The heads are positioned on target cylinders on the basis of the servo information read from the disks through the heads, so that information recording/reproducing can be performed. The disks include outer guard band areas located further out than data areas and inner guard band areas located further in than the data area. Analysis information concerning disk surfaces are recorded on the outer guard band areas. Each of the outer guard band areas is segmented into first and second outer guard band areas in a radial direction. The analysis information is recorded on the first outer guard band area. The servo information for an off-track correction is recorded on the second outer guard band area.
摘要:
According to one embodiment, a method of writing servo information comprises: moving a head at a predetermined pitch in the radial direction of a storage disk to write servo information to each radial direction position in the circumferential direction of the storage disk; detecting a positional deviation value of the head while the servo information is being written to the radial direction position and determining whether the positional deviation value exceeds a predetermined value; and writing, when the positional deviation value exceeds the predetermined value, the position of defective servo information where the positional deviation value exceeds the predetermined value to a predetermined position in the radial direction of the storage disk.
摘要:
To reduce power consumption of an information storage device, a control circuit for the information storage device stops the supply of a formatter clock or an ECC unit clock simultaneously with a seek operation. When a clock stop time has elapsed by the time obtained by subtracting at least a time required for restarting the formatter or the ECC unit from a seek time, the control circuit restarts the supply of the formatter clock or the ECC unit clock.
摘要:
There are provided a storage apparatus and a computer-readable recording medium, on whose storage areas, servo frames are arranged at uniform intervals in a spoke-like pattern. Each of the servo frames has an index bit storing section storing, as an index bit, part of an index pattern, which is operable to identify a storage area. The apparatus and the recording medium have a storage area recognizing unit for recognizing the storage areas based on the index bits, which are obtained by an index bit obtaining unit. The index bits, stored one in each of the index bit storing sections of the servo frames, are adapted to form, when being sequentially arranged, an index bit string in which such an index pattern repeatedly appears.
摘要:
Disclosed is an off-track correcting method for a disk apparatus for measuring an off-track correction value by use of servo data on a data surface. The data surface on a disk medium is recorded with servo data for an off-track measurement. The data head seals a cylinder position recorded with the off-track measurement servo data. It is determined whether or not this cylinder position is a sensitivity abnormal position of the cylinder. The data head reads a first item of servo data after offset-moving the data head by a predetermined quantity on inner and outer sides of the disk medium, corresponding to detecting that the data head is located in the sensitivity abnormal position. An off-track correction value in the cylinder position is calculated from the plural pieces of first servo data read finally in a plurality of reading positions. This, even when enhancing a track density, the precise off-track correction value can be thereby measured.
摘要:
A fault detection circuit, for detecting a fault condition associated with a sensor (wherein non-fault detection signals output by the sensor include high frequency noise components), includes: an input unit to receive a raw signal from the sensor and to provide a corresponding detection signal; and a determination unit to determine if the detection signal includes components in significant amounts corresponding to the non-fault high frequency noise components, and to output an indication that the fault condition is satisfied if the detection signal does not include components in significant amounts corresponding to the non-fault high frequency noise components.